Bottle-filling machine.



PATENT-ED MAR. 5,' 1907.

M. HAMBURGEIL BOTTLE FILLING MACHINE.

APP-LIOATLON' FILED SEPT. 27, 1906.

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PATENTED MAR. 5, 1907..

M. HAMBU RGER. BOTTLE FILLING MACHINE.

'APPLIOATION FILED SE?T.27.1906.

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wit" moo/o THE NORRIS PETERS c TINTTE El STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARK HAMBURGER, OF BALTIMORE,

MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- FOURTH TO PHILIP HAMBURGER, JR, AND ONE-FOURTH TO HARRY HAMBURGER, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

BOTTLE-FILLING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 5, 1907.

Application filed September 27,1906. Serial No. 336,501,

To a. whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MARK HAMBURGER, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Baltimore, State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottle-Filling Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention. relates to bottle-filling devices, and is designed for use in connection with a coupling adapted to be connected with a cask, barrel, or other receptacle containing fluid.

The object of this invention is to provide a novel device which may be used in connection with ordinary metal spigots, and the invention further contemplates the provision of a novel filling attachment and a receptacle connection, the said connection and attachment being interchangeablethat is, the attachment is capable of use successively in conjunction with a plurality of spigot or barrel connections.

A further object of this invention is to pro vide a novel valve-actuating mechanism. slidably secured to the casing of the attachment and held normally projected through the agency of a spring for actuating the valve, said valve-actuating device and valvestem being in contact while the valve is moving in either direction.

A further object of this invention is to provide a barrel connection and in conjunction therewith a plurality of joints or branches, each of which is provided with a filling apparatus made in accordance with this invention.

Finally, an object of this invention is to produce a bottle-filling device comprising few comparatively inexpensive parts, which will prove strong and durable, as well as efficient and satisfactory in use.

With the foregoing and other objects in view the invention consists in detail of construction and in the arrangement and combination of parts, to be hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

In describing the invention in detail reference will be had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification, where: in like characters denote corresponding parts, and in which- Figure 1 is a view showing a barrel connection with the filling attachment in place.

Fig. 2 is a view of an ordinary spigot for the barrel with the filling attachment applied thereto. Fig. 3 is a view in elevation showing dual filling attachments applied to a barrel connection. Fig. 4 is a sectional view of the filling apparatus applied to a modified spigot.

In the drawings, A denotes a threaded shank, which is designed to be screwed into a hole of the barrel, and it will be understood that by the term barrel I mean any cask, can, tank, or container from which liquid is to be drawn. The threaded shank has a discharge-channel communicating with a hollow boss B integral with the outer end of the shank, which boss is internally screwthreaded at O. The outer end of the shank is provided with a shouldered lug D for the application of a wrench or other implement designed for turning the shank.

'1 he filling attachment, which is applied to the hollow boss, consists of a nipple E, threaded into the boss, said nipple having a perforated inner end to permit the-discharge of the liquid theret-hrough, and the end of the nipple is further provided with a central aperture e, in which the valve-stem F is guided, the said valve-stem having a spring G encircling it, which spring bears against the end of the nipple and the valve H, which valve is carried on the stem F. The outer end of the nipple is internally threaded'and a tube I is adjustable therein, the said tube having an internal valve-seat J, on which the valve is normally held through the action of a sprin heretofore described. The. valve is statione on the stem at a point intermediate its length, and the end of said stem projects through the tube a suitable distance and is notched at its extremity, as shown at K.

As stated before, the valve is held normally on its seat through the action of a spring, and in order to release the valve from the seat it is necessary to retract the valvestem against the action of said spring, and this I accomplish through a novel device termed a yoke, which yoke L comprises a strip of metal, preferably wire, which is bent on itself to form a loop M, which loop portion lies in the notch in the end of the valve-stem. The sections N of the yoke, which lie approximately parallel, are adapted to embrace the lower end of the tube with relation to which it slides, and said yoke is moved by pressure owing to the application of a bottle or other receptacle to be filled, which receptacle to be filled must be applied with sufficient force to overcome the tension of the spring of the valvestem. Suitable guides O are attached to the outer surface of the tube and the parallel portions of the yoke are slidable therein. The guides consist of strips of metal looped centrally to form the guides, the ends of said strips being brazed or otherwise secured to the tube. The strip forming the yoke is bent at approximately right angles to the parallel portions, and the extremities thereof are again bent at an angle to the right-angular portions and converged toward and preferably contact with the parallel portions of th yoke. The converging portions P form con tacts for the mouth of the bottle, and owing to the fact that the contacting surfaces widen toward the top it follows that bottles with mouths of different diameters may be accommodated and used. in conjunction with the filling apparatus. If the mouth of the bottle is quite small, it will be observed that it will contact with the yoke a a point near the junction of the yoke and converging ends, While if the diameter of the mouth is greater the head will contact with the converging portions at points remote from the junction of the converging portions and parallel portions.

In utilizing this apparatus after the connection has been applied to the barrel and made to communicate with its interior it is only necessary to apply the bottle to the yoke and by pressure thereon unseat the valve, when liquid will flow into the said bottle, and when a sufficient quantity has been drawn and pressure is removed from the yoke the valve will be forced to its seat through the action of the spring and the flow will be interrupted.

The filling attachment heretofore described can be utilized in connection with ordinary faucets Q, having internal threads at its discharge-opening, and as the filling attachment used in the connection shown in Fig. 2 has the form of that heretofore described it will not be referred to in detail, as its application will, it is thought, be apparent from the drawing.

In the device shown in Fig. 3 I utilize a threaded shank R, which is similar in all respects to the threaded shank A, except the shank R is provided with. two couplings S, having elbows T, which receive the nipple and filling apparatus heretofore described. This latter form is disclosed to show the utility of the invention as a gang filler, and it follows that these may be multiplied to suit particular requirements. The mechanism and construction of the filling apparatus proper is the same as that disclosed in connection with the description in Fig. 1.

In Fig. 4 I have shown the controlling device applied to a modified form of spigot A, having a hollow boss B, internally threaded, as at (1.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a bottle-filling apparatus, a suitable tube in communication with a barrel, avalveseat therein, a valve contacting with the seat, a valve-stem projecting through the end of the tub e, means for holding the valve seated. the said valve-stem having a notch in its lower end, a yoke consisting of a looped portion lying in the notch. of the valvestem,,the said yoke having parallel portions on the outside of the tube, guides on the tube in which the parallel portions of the yoke are slidable, the said yoke having outwardly-bent portions embracing the guides, the said outwardly-bent portions of the yoke having ex tensions converging toward the bottom of the yoke and cantacting therewith and adapted to be engaged by the receptacle to be filled.

2. In a bottle-filling apparatus, a tube in communication with a barrel, a valve-seat therein, a valve contacting with the seat, a valve-stem projecting through the end of the tube, means for holding the valve seated, a yoke consisting of a looped portion contacting with the valve-stem, said yoke having parallel portions on the outside of the tube, loops on the tube forming guides in which the parallel portions of the yokes are slidable, the said yoke having outwardly-bent portions embracing the guides, the said outwardlybent portions of the yoke having extensions converging toward the bottom of the yoke and contacting therewith and adapted to be engaged by the receptacle to be filled.

3. In a bottle-filling apparatus, a tube, a valve-seat therein, a valve contacting with the seat, a valve-stem projecting through the end of the tube, loops on the exterior of the tube, and a yoke slidable in said loops contacting with the stem, said yoke being provided with inclined portions to contact with the receptacle to be filled.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature, in the presence of two witnesses, this 26th day of September, 1906.

MARK HAMBURGER.

Witnesses:

JACOB S. NEAL, CHARLES H. QUIGLEY. 

